Handle for files and other tools



(No Model.)

J. P. FRENCH;

HANDLE IEORIILES AND OTHER TOOLS.

No. 285,988. Patented Oct. 2, 188 3 y a I W] TNESbiES UNITED STATES A'IENT FFICE.

JOSIAH F. FRENCH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HANDLE FOR FILES AND OTHER TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,988, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed August 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, JOSIAH F. FRENCH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Handles for Files and other Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a handle constructed for secure attachment to the tang or stem of a file or other tool, substantially as described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view, mainly in section, and drawn to an enlarged scale, of my improved handle for files and other tools; Fig. 2, a transverse section on the line 1 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, atransverse section on the line 3 4.; Fig. 4, a view of the tang of a file or other tool prepared for attachment to the handle; and Fig. 5, a modification of my invention.

Into an orifice in the wooden portion A of the handle is driven a metal tube, B, made, preferably, of cast-iron, annealed, a portion of the tube being made hexagonal in the present instance to prevent it from turning in the orifice, or the tube may have a fin, or may be otherwise constructed externally to prevent it from turning. The tube B is contracted and threaded internally at x,.so as to become the nut for that portion of the tang D of a file or other tool,which has parallelly-threaded edges m m, as shown in Fig. 4., a feature which forms no part of my present invention, and which I do not claim in this application, as it forms the subject of aseparate application for a patent, filed by me August 27, 1883, Serial No. 104,858. The tube B has at its outer end a rounded flange, a, to which extends the wooden portion of the handle, and to the latter is fitted and secured a ferrule, G, the outer end of which is bent over the rounded end of the tube B, as shown in Fig. 1.

I11 securing the handle to the file or other tool, the threaded tube becomes a nut, and when screwed onto the threaded portion of the tang D causes the outer end of the said tube to bear against the shoulders at a of the file or other tool, thereby firmly securing the handle to the same. The application of the handle, however, is not restricted to files and other tools having these abrupt shoulders, for a tapering shank or tang may bear against the inner edge, y, of the tube B, as shown in Fig.

5. It is not essential, moreover, in carrying out my invention that thereshould be a flange,

a, at the outer end of the tube, or that theend of the ferrule should be bent over the end of the tube, as shown in Fig. 1; but it is essential that there should be a metal bearing for the tang, and that this metal bearing should be on the tubular nut, adapted to the threaded portion of the tang or stem of the tool; and in this respect my invention differs from handles heretofore made, in which a nut embedded in aWooden handle and adapted to the stem of a tool is'independent of and apart from that portion of the handle which bears on the tang or shoulder of a tool, the main object of my invention being to so construct a nut and so adapt it to the handle that there shall be no yielding material between the tangof the tool and the nut, the latter, and not the wooden portion of the handle, being the medium for resisting the end-pressure imparted to the handle in screwing it to its place. The overlapping end of the ferrule may bear against the shoulders of the tool; but the result will be the same, the tube being the resisting medium.

In the modification, Fig. 5, the tube 13 has no flange, but terminates abruptly at the end of the handle, and is independent of the ferrule; but, as in the former case, it affords a bearing for, the tang when thehandle is screwed tightly onto the same.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the wooden portion A of a tool-handle and its ferrule G with an internally-threaded tube or nut which extends to the end of the handle to form a bearing for the tang, stem, or shoulder of the tool, substantially as set forth. I

2. The combination of the wooden portion A of the handle, the internally-threaded tube or nut B, and the ferrule G, the end of which is made to overlap or partly overlap the end of the said tube, substantially as set forth.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSIAH F. FRENCH.

W'itnesses:

H RRY L. Asnnnrnnrnn, HENRY HoWsoN, Jr. 

